On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:00 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Friday 13 Jul 2012 7:12:33 pm Eugen Leitl wrote:
> >
> http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/whnoj/as_an_indian_never_reali
> > zed_that_these_words_from/
>
> Big deal. Ever since Macaulay made the learning of English compulsory for
> the
> "natives" of India who were up until then studying useless Sanskrit and
> Arabic,


Ummm. I thought the language of the Moghul court was Persian....

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